Day 10: Plyometric Cardio Circuit

This is my 3rd time completing this workout!

Today was tough.  Seriously tough.  I woke up feeling tired, then after eating a huge lunch... lethargic.  But!  I did my workout and am happy I did it.  Now I'm just hungry!

Favorite exercises:
~ Football drills:  They're so much fun!
~ Basketball jumps:  Killer by the 3rd set, but I really like doing them.
~ (In push-up plank position) Knees side-to-side jumps:  Killer again, but I like them.  It's actually my arms that get so worn out, that I can't continue jumping.
~ Jab punches, uppercuts, palm strikes:  These were fun!  ... and easy... ^_^;

Exercises that killed me:
~ Level 1 drills:  It was the push-ups.  Almost every time that circuit came up... I would miss the first set, get mentally together and join in.  I did my best though!
~ Power Squats:  Usually not a problem for me.  But something about today... these were just tough!  I felt like I couldn't get deep enough in my squat.
~ Mountain Climbers:  High knees are so tiring after a while!

I thought I'd take a video of the "Stretching" portion after the warm-up.

Just to warn you, the video is about 7-8 minutes long because the stretching takes about 6:30 min.

If you watch it, Shaun T misses a stretch/exercise.  Can you figure out what it is?  I realized this the second time I completed this workout.  That's the main reason I recorded myself.  If you can't see it, then I mention it at the end of the video!  Enjoy!

Day 10: Meals 1 + snack + 2 ~ Breakfast + Snack + Lunch

Friday!  Woke up pretty tired this morning.  Stayed up last night kind of late because I went to a friend's performance (which was fun) and then stayed up late backlogging my blog entries!  Remind me never to do that again...

I've eaten quite a lot today already!

Breakfast:  Not really a meal, but don't like to be full before teaching exercise classes.  

Food:  Quaker Oats Chewy Low Fat Chocolate Chunk granola bar (90 kcal)

Calories:  90 kcal

I know, not much, but I had to eat and go!

I never mentioned it, but I teach a seated aerobics class at an assisted-living and alzheimer's living facility.  This facility in particular is known for their  professional chefs and good food.  

Their cookies are the best!  Each week, I walk past the receptionist's desk and see a plate of cookies.  I was hungry after class and... seriously delicious.

Snack:  1 oatmeal cookie, 1/2 choco chip cookie

Food:  Oatmeal (130 kcal), Chocochip (65 kcal)

Calories so far:  285 kcal

Oops, shouldn't have had those cookies... I was expecting to go home and eat a bowl of cereal or something... but ring ring!  "Come to dim sum for a feast!"

This first 1/2 of the meal was eaten at Ocean Bo Dim Sum Cafe.  Pretty good.  Not the best, but pretty good.  I didn't eat all of the food here, there were 4 of us, and I picked and chose.

Lunch:  LOTS of dim sum!

Food:  1 veggie wrapped thing, 1 leaf-wrapped rice + stuff, 1 rice paper wrapped shrimp, 1/2 yellow bean sesame ball, 1/2 slice radish cake, 2 egg custard tarts!

Calories:  ~450 kcal?  I really can't say?

I ate until full... which is usually around 300 kcal. 

Here is the radish cake.  Sad it's not very crispy from being pan fried.  I like it best when it's crispy. Also, no garlic sauce.  *sad*

I didn't even want to order it, but it was ordered... my beloved egg custard tart!  I ate 1 (with someone taking bites of it T_T)... then one was left sitting.  So I ate the other... again someone *cough* took a huge bite out of it.  

<--- My favorite.  Also the best thing I ate during the entire meal!  It was warm, freshly made, with flakey light crust!!!

Sleepy and full still!  I finished eating at 12:40p... I hate overeating >_<  I planned to workout at 3:00p... then pushed it to 3:30p... now maybe at 4:00p?  

We'll see!  Hurry up and digest stomach!

P.S. Here's a random photo of me with my friend Stephanie from last night.  The theme was "School girl."  

My hair always gets in the way of exercise... but it's nice to be able to put it up like this if I want to.  

Day 9: Dinner time!

Finally last entry for the day!  I shouldn't have put them off.

Takes me forever to type it all at once (and try to remember everything).  Luckily, I take pictures!  It helps a lot.

Dinner was simple and healthy.  Easy to cook since I was feeling lazy.  Some leftovers and some easy saute-ing.

Dinner:  Fried tofu with sesame seeds and pickled radish, baby bok choy, steamed rice with sesame seeds and pickled radish

Food:  3 slices tofu (75 kcal), 1 cup baby bok choy (10 kcal), 1/2 cup rice (100 kcal), 2 tbsp pickled radish (6 kcal)

Calories:  191 kcal

I was pretty full after.  I prepared all the food, but only ate 3 slices of tofu and didn't finish the rice.


Finally!  I'm finished!  All updates for today are complete.  Tomorrow is Plyometric Cardio Circuit and I'm a bit worried.  I said that earlier.  I can feel my calves already start to stiffen up.  Time for brushing my teeth, then putting on some generic ben gay!

Day 9: Snack + Meal 2!

Before Pure Cardio, I wasn't hungry at all.  It must have been the excess of calories I had consumed from the day before.  Noodles then Chick-Fil-A!  A little too much.

Right after Pure Cardio, I was starving.

So I hopped outside and grabbed some figs!  Sorry no photo... but I keep eating them, so you might get tired of fig photos ^^;

Snack:  4 figs

Food:  4 figs (84 kcal)

Calories:  84 kcal

Yum.  I had to take a shower because I was sweating so much.

Insanity makes you sweat.  Serious sweat.  Thank goodness for dry-fit clothing.  I don't know what I'd do without it!  I meant to make a post about showers... but I'll do that tomorrow since I put off this entry until 1:05a... oops.

I went to the supermarket earlier in the day and this soup was on sale!  I have been craving chowder, so perfect!  Here's the next mini-meal!

Lunch:  Campbell's Chunky New England Clam Chowder with some fresh ground pepper

Food:  1 cup clam chowder (230 kcal), pepper (2 kcal?)

Calories so far:  316 kcal

Delicious... high in fat though... but today was a pretty good day for eating.

P.S. Remember how I mentioned earlier to always read the label to check your calories and servings?  I only ate 1/2 the contents of the can.  Because 1 can = 2 servings!  Don't be fooled!  That means, if you ate the entire can, you'd have eaten 460 kcal and 40% of your daily fat %age.

Always read your labels!  I should have a label tutorial here....

Yum!  My beloved mango!  You can't have the mango!  I ate all of you.

Snack:  1 full mango

Food:  Mango (32 kcal)

Calories so far:  348 kcal

I love mangos!  Healthy and satisfying and delicious!!!

Bro and I always wonder how is it that this food is so tasty, yet still healthy?  Lucky us for loving mangos!

Day 9: Pure Cardio

I feel really good about today's workout!  Completed it around 4:00p.

My warm-up was pretty kick-butt!  I was going really fast during the 3rd set and didn't fee ultra winded.  *proud*  I was really focusing on completing it strong.

Both Cardio Power & Resistance or Plyometric Cardio Circuit are "interval" workouts ~ meaning you get to take breaks in between sets of exercises, but you go max out.  Pure Cardio workout is approximately 16 minutes of non-stop exercises.  

Non-stop!

You can take a break, but you just jump back in when you're ready.

Exercises that killed me in this circuit:

~ Frog jumps -- I decided to change it from a squat to a "full squat" meaning you squat all the way to the floor for full range of motion (ROM).  If you can do a movement, you should strengthen it through the entire range of motion.  As long as you stay within the boundaries of safety.  Going to a full squat (as late as it is in the circuit)... was killer.

~ Push-up jacks -- ahhh!  upper body strength!  I would do 2, then keel over ^^;  I did my best though

~ Level 2 drills -- again with the upper body strength!  The "suicides" (burpees) and "floor sprints" (mountain climbers) weren't a problem... (well, too much), but the push-ups!  Just to keep going, I modified to knee-push-ups.  

Favorite exercises in this circuit:

~ Football sprints -- I really like these!  I think they're fun!  Even with all the jiggling ^^;

~ Hook punches + high knees to chest -- These were fun too XD

I was dying last week during Pure Cardio (because I was doing the wrong order of exercises), but this time it was lots of fun!

Tomorrow is Plyometric Cardio Circuit!

*a little worried cause already sore...*